Sometimes I wonder what changed about Zelda. These days, people say OoT was overrated, and now they dislike games that mimic OoT in terms of linearism, difficulty, ect. I don't really think games like Wind Waker and Twilight Princess failed to be sucessors of OoT - I just think alot of Zelda fans realized they wanted it to go back to the origins of ALTTP, not just OoT, and want their regular button controls again along with difficulty (that may just be the main issue). However, time is moving. Someday, there won't be regular button controllers anymore at all. When that time comes, that complaint will be about video games in general, NOT just Zelda.
The more popular a series, the more hate there is for it inspite of that love. Look at Final Fantasy.
